Polar bears are among the very few animals who will kill you and eat you if you annoy them.

Sad.

I can't wait 'til we figure out a way to grind polar bear and caribou into oil. This idiotic "save the animals that nobody gives a sh*t about" routine will end overnight.

99.9 percent of all species who have ever lived are extinct. So long, Mr. polar bear, it's been nice knowin' ya. Say hello to T-rex for me :)

I can't wait 'til we figure out a way to grind polar bear and caribou into oil.

Polar bears are pretty fat, it could work. Near the other pole, penguins were slaughtered in huge numbers for oil.

Polar bears are a young species. Similar species have probably evolved and gone extinct many times as ice packs waxed and waned.

Wow, that's really the headline

It really doesn't matter.

Humans will be part of the 99% within 100 years anyway.

Wow, that's really the headline

"Annoy" is a legal term used in federal wildlife law. There's a list of things you can't do to protected species starting with killing them and working its way down to anything bored bureaucrats can think of. "Taking" is a word used collectively for the whole list. So if you want to hunt a polar bear or pitch a tent to close to its den you need a permit which allows you to harass, annoy, feed, take, or otherwise violate the general law.

Tragedy today as 200 oil company executives were eaten by polar bears. They were delicious.

Stephen Colbert approves.

poke...poke...poke...poke...poke... AAAH DEAR SWEET JESUS JOSEPH MARY MOTHER OF GOD!!! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHH!!!!!

Message to all polar bears....

Get over it!

/Drill Here
//Drill Now

eqtworld: BEAR HUGS

I have a cat that does that with mice before it kills them. Some like to play with there food.

Ghastly: poke...poke...poke...poke...poke... AAAH DEAR SWEET JESUS JOSEPH MARY MOTHER OF GOD!!! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHH!!!!!

Nice work made me laugh

Ghastly: poke...poke...poke...poke...poke... AAAH DEAR SWEET JESUS JOSEPH MARY MOTHER OF GOD!!! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHH!!!!!

Quick! Somebody get me meat! You! Get the meat already!.

Yet another nicely balanced piece of...reporting...from the AP. Yes, that's sarcasm.

FOOLS ! YOUR GETTING WHAT YOU WANTED NOW BE HAPPY ABOUT IT !

Just try it!

/I wish
//Damn Republicians

Darth Shatner: Message to all polar bears....

Get over it!

/Drill Here
//Drill Now

Then what? People act as though ANWAR is an infinite supply of free oil instead of two years worth of current US consumption.

Bears, schmears, pumping all the oil on our land first is stupid. We want everybody else to run out first. Then we hold the cards...and what will then be much more valuable reserves.

Long term planning and self discipline can have some pretty staggering rewards.

fark the polar bears.
How about this deal: environmentalist tree huggers can pay $200/bl for oil and have all the polar bears and caribou they want and I'll fill up on 50 cent endangered animal gas.

U.S. has 800 BILLION barrels of oil in oil shale in the rockies (that's more than ALL of Saudi Arabia and would equal free gas for 25 years) but we won't drill there because we would have to cut down some trees.

The stupidity of this country physically pains me.

AmazingRuss: Long term planning and self discipline can have some pretty staggering rewards.

But I want it now...

ZAZ: Polar bears are among the very few animals who will kill you and eat you if you annoy them.

In related news, polar bears are among the very few animals who will kill you and eat you if you don't annoy them.

AmazingRuss:

Bears, schmears, pumping all the oil on our land first is stupid. We want everybody else to run out first. Then we hold the cards...and what will then be much more valuable reserves.



You know, I never thought of it that way. Certainly an interesting perspective.

Today, you have lived up to your name.

I wonder if anyone else realizes that this isn't gonna fix shiat.

Drilling for more oil is not the answer for the long-term problems of a hydrocarbon-based economy. It just buys a little more time.

We can haz hydrogen plz?

What good have polar bears done to society? Absolutely nothing except for the polar bear movies, zoos, and Coca-Cola Christmas commercials. Humans have done a lot more to society than any other species and some were quite helpful.

We should be doing whatever we can wherever we can to get the oil we need and to bring world prices down. Alternative fuels are just fine but aren't currently available.

From me, a great BIG FARK YOU to the environmental left who has done more damage to this country than our enemies can.

IStateTheObvious: AmazingRuss:

Bears, schmears, pumping all the oil on our land first is stupid. We want everybody else to run out first. Then we hold the cards...and what will then be much more valuable reserves.



You know, I never thought of it that way. Certainly an interesting perspective.

Today, you have lived up to your name.

Can you imagine how much fun it would be to make the Saudis pay $2000/barrel for that ANWAR oil?

Reminds me of that comedian (I can't remember his name), who did a routine on Dolphin safe Tuna. "What about the tuna, people only care about the dolphins, it's like "Save the dolphins, fark the tuna". People only want to save the cute animals, if they're ugly, fark 'em"

I've got my stick! I'm ready to go poke the bears!

RogueFox: I wonder if anyone else realizes that this isn't gonna fix shiat.

Drilling for more oil is not the answer for the long-term problems of a hydrocarbon-based economy. It just buys a little more time.

We can haz hydrogen plz?

Yeah, but we need some source of energy in the meantime. Nuclear power would be great, but environmentalists won't let us use it, and things like ethanol aren't really going anywhere. So, in the meantime we need to become more energy independent while working on making sources of alternative energy, such as nuclear and hydrogen power, more viable.

I put gasoline in my KLR650 yesterday. North Bend, Washington. $4.66 89 octane. Cost me $17.00 even to put three point something gallons in. There was some fuel in the tank already, so thats what it cost to fill it to the brim. Why does Congress hate America?

Ahhhh........here we go. Now that gas prices are starting affect Americans, the government is giving these oil companies carte blanche to do whatever the hell they want. WITHOUT ANY LEGAL REPERCUSSIONS!!!!
We, as Americans, are really starting to suck as a nation. The second we can't afford to drive our H2's and our Tahoes, we get all pissy and whiny and expect the government to take care of it for us. You know what? GET OVER IT!!! Maybe it's time to advance as a nation, technologically speaking, past the 1890's and start actually researching alternative forms of energy....oh wait, I forgot.....we are way too damn impatient. If it can't be done by tomorrow, the hell with it. We are better off fighting wars and destroying the environment to get what we want. Instead of advancing towards the future we are, and will always be, ruled by these guys:

So how many farking PETA huggers here read the last line in the article? 2 (yes, TWO) polar bear deaths attributable to oil drilling activities since 1960. That's almost 50 years with only 2 polar bear deaths. BFD. I only wish the farking bear huggers would lay down under the drilling rigs and sacrifice themselves in the name of the polar bears.

/obligatory

It makes you wonder whether or not the price of oil is being driven up in order to make people acquiesce to drilling areas we had set aside for preservation.

It's clear the oil companies have no intention of letting oil go until they've sucked up every drop they can possibly get to. Finding alternative sources of renewable energy is going to have to be a government mandate demanded by voting citizens.

Lee Harvey Osmond: From me, a great BIG FARK YOU to the environmental left who has done more damage to this country than our enemies can.

Scapegoat much? When the rubber meets the road, the environmentalists are ignored...as we see happening now. They are powerless to do much more than shake their tiny fists and bleat.

Besides...I thought conservatives were saying "everything is GRRRRREAT! in America." Are you some kind of liberal naysayer or something, claiming America is somehow "damaged", which implies imperfection?

You partisans are a laugh riot!

Lee Harvey Osmond

Let me guess you were one of those kids who would throw themselves into a tantrum yelling and screaming at your parents saying "I want it now!!!! WAHHHHHHH!" This is the kind of mentality that has screwed us in our country, the general populace having tantrums of rage so they can have our government continue to consume without consequence. So you have can have your SUV now! So you can have cheaper gasoline than the rest of the world now! So you can have your whopper now! So you can have a soda without calories now! Ignoring all the consequences of haste has us consuming deadly chemicals, deadly air, and making us poor in the process. Guess what I want my children and my grandchildren to have the same opportunity to live in a world where they know is still pristine, untouched by greed, and is sample of life before it was desecrated by our voracious appetite. 60 years ago people scoffed at the notion of landing on the moon, there is no excuse for you neo con pirates to scoff at a renewable energy source revolution. You guys are pathetic.

Congress doesn't hate America. Only "Pelosi" Democrats in Congress who stop exploration of oil hate America. Look at the voting to figure this one out.

pchancharl: fark the polar bears.
How about this deal: environmentalist tree huggers can pay $200/bl for oil and have all the polar bears and caribou they want and I'll fill up on 50 cent endangered animal gas.

U.S. has 800 BILLION barrels of oil in oil shale in the rockies (that's more than ALL of Saudi Arabia and would equal free gas for 25 years) but we won't drill there because we would have to cut down some trees.

The stupidity of this country physically pains me.

Trees? The pine beetles pretty much took care of our abundance of trees here.

Seriously though, that is journalism at it's finest. I'm a multiple news source reader/watcher, but farking Fox News has more journalistic integrity than AP these days.

Ohh... and hey guys... if we don't start drilling ANWAR now, we're going to do it during a REAL farking oil crisis. It's going to get drilled, like it or not. Which way do you think it's going to be done more responsibly? Now, with oil at ~$135 a barrel, or 10 years from now with oil at $400 a barrel?

Lee Harvey Osmond: We should be doing whatever we can wherever we can to get the oil produce the alternate fuels we need and to bring world energy prices down. Alternative fuels Fossil fuels are just fine but aren't there isn't enough currently available and they will run out eventually.

From me, a great BIG FARK YOU to the environmental left corporate whores on the right and the politicians who have sold us out to the oil lobby and has done more damage to this country than our enemies can.

ftfy

I'm here once again to talk about shale oil. I don't know what it is, or if shale is a verb or noun, but I heard it on TV so it has to be the wave of the future.

At LAST - we can harass polar bears!! Because that's what we've been waiting for all this time. Oh JOY!

dirkfunk: Ohh... and hey guys... if we don't start drilling ANWAR now, we're going to do it during a REAL farking oil crisis. It's going to get drilled, like it or not. Which way do you think it's going to be done more responsibly? Now, with oil at ~$135 a barrel, or 10 years from now with oil at $400 a barrel?

At which point would you rather be buying foreign oil...now when its $135, or in 10 years, when ANWR is depleted, and oil is $400?

Yes, it will be drilled, but the later, the better.

AmazingRuss: Tiny enviro fist?


US appears to have built its last refinery

12-06-01 No new refineries have been built in the US in the past 25 years. And petroleum industry experts say anyone would have to be crazy to launch such an effort -- even though present refineries are running at nearly 100 % of capacity and local gasoline shortages are beginning to crop up.

Why does the industry appear to have built its last refinery?
Three reasons: Refineries are not particularly profitable, environmentalists fight planning and construction every step of the way and government red-tape makes the task all but impossible. The last refinery built in the US was in Garyville, Louisiana, and it started up in 1976.
Energy proposed building a refinery near Portsmouth, Virginia, in the late 1970s, environmental groups and local residents fought the plan -- and it took almost nine years of battles in court and before federal and state regulators before the company cancelled the project in 1984.

Industry officials estimate the cost of building a new refinery at between $ 2 bn and $ 4 bn -- at a time the industry must devote close to $ 20 bn over the next decade to reducing the sulphur content in gasoline and other fuels -- and approval could mean having to collect up to 800 different permits. As if those hurdles weren't enough, the industry's long-term rate of return on capital is just 5 % -- less than could be realized by simply buying US Treasury bonds.
"I'm sure that at some point in the last 20 years someone has considered building a new refinery," says James Halloran, an energy analyst with National City Corp. "But they quickly came to their senses," he adds.

Source: Investor's Business Daily

DubyaHater:

Who's whining? Why should we be forced to pay exorbitant prices for foreign oil when we can become energy independent and pay so much less for our own oil? It's not like oil companies determine the price of oil; supply and demand does that. Why should we continue to bow before OPEC and futilely beg for cheaper oil?

Also, the red area is the area that they want to drill in...



/Yeah, that red area
//inside the green area

RogueFox: I wonder if anyone else realizes that this isn't gonna fix shiat.

Drilling for more oil is not the answer for the long-term problems of a hydrocarbon-based economy. It just buys a little more time.

We can haz hydrogen plz?

Is Hydrogen ready to go as a replacement for oil? No? Then we need to drill for more oil to buy us enough time until it is ready.

Or you could just stop using any petroleum based products until the Hyrdrogen economy and infrastructure is ready. Can you do that?

AmazingRuss: dirkfunk: Ohh... and hey guys... if we don't start drilling ANWAR now, we're going to do it during a REAL farking oil crisis. It's going to get drilled, like it or not. Which way do you think it's going to be done more responsibly? Now, with oil at ~$135 a barrel, or 10 years from now with oil at $400 a barrel?

At which point would you rather be buying foreign oil...now when its $135, or in 10 years, when ANWR is depleted, and oil is $400?

Yes, it will be drilled, but the later, the better.

Explain that one ten years from now, when a pipeline is hastily thrown together, has a major spill and does some REAL environmental damage. Authorize drilling today, we start to get oil in ~2018. Authorize drilling in 2016, we get oil in ~2018. One will be done using environmentally sound practices, the other will be a clusterfark. Hey, you decide.

MrBrightside: DubyaHater:

Who's whining? Why should we be forced to pay exorbitant prices for foreign oil when we can become energy independent and pay so much less for our own oil? It's not like oil companies determine the price of oil; supply and demand does that. Why should we continue to bow before OPEC and futilely beg for cheaper oil?

Also, the red area is the area that they want to drill in...

And here's what it looks like:



/Yeah, that red area
//inside the green area

What the hell does it matter if there are polar bears or not. This is in an area where humans never go and visit anyway so nobody is going to see them anyway. It doesnt matter if the are there or not. They are mean evil beasts anyway